Improvement in horseshoes



To all. whom it may concern:

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Leners Patent N0.`95,133, daz'septembw 21, 1369.

IMPROVEMENT IN' HnsEsHoEs.

l The Schedule referred to i'n these Letters Patent and making partoi' the same.

Be ,it known that I, CHARLES PEILLARD, of the Empire `of France, have invented a new andusefu'l Improvement in Horsesliocs; and-I do hereby declare 'that the following is a full, clear, and exactde- `scription of the` construction and operation of the same, reference `beinghad to the accompanying drawings, making a part` of this specification, in which- Figure l isa front elevation, and

r .Figure 2 is a planview of the shoe inverted.

` This invention consists in dividing a vhorseshoe in `two parts of equal length, the divisin taking place at the middle, and the line of section being partlystraig'ht and partly circular, so as to fonn at the extremity of one branch, a curved projection, and at the adjacent "extremity of the other branch, a depression of corre- Spmidingshape, byvvhich the two branches are con-V nected when' nailed upon` the hoof, without a hinge.

`In the drawingsi a b represent the two branches of my horseshoe,

the partit having, at itsA front end, a curvedprojeotion, a', and the'part b having at itsi'ront end, a-curved recess' of corresponding shape. u

When the two parts are nailed upon the hoof, theyare, by this construction, pivoted together without any pin, that is to'say, they have all the yieldingness of i a hinge, `without any of` its rigidity.

The object of this arrangement is to allow the hoof to expand vas it naturally does under the weight of the animal, and as it is prevented from doing when a rigid shoe is employed. Diseases of varioussorts are caused by this violation of the laws of nature, all which are prevented by my arrangement. Its use renders the horse more nimble and condent in, his movements.

Italsorequircs resetting less often than the ordinary shoe, "because there is no lateral strain brought upon the nails by the hoof.

`The tongue-and-grooye form is adoptedin order to give to each branch the support of the other against frontal impact.

Having thus described lmy invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by LetI y Witnesses:

F. OLcoTT, J U. ZUs'r. 

